Well E3 has come and gone and here are my thougts:

Microsoft:

Microsoft had the best conference I think. They showed off the best games. Fallout 3 looks AWESOME (Oblivion with guns!) so I can't wait to play that one. RE5, we finally got a release date (March 13), and co-op is amazing. Fable 2, I LOVE what they did with the online, where you see people as these orbs and just walk up to them to invite them into your world. Gears of War 2 footage blew my mind and is shaping up to be the best shooter of 2008 and even better than the first one! Then they announced a new xbox interface and avatars, which were both pretty cool. FF13 announcement made me laugh, I couldn't even believe it! Overall, good conference.

Nintendo:

This was the most disappointing one by far. They announced Animal Crossing Wii which will be awesome though, I definitely can't wait for that one! But the rest was disappointing compared to what I was expecting. I wanted a new Zelda trailer to at least know that they were making progress on a new one and see what it will be like, or a Pikmin 3 trailer, or something like that, but... we didn't get any of that, we just got a "yeah, a new Zelda and new Pikmin are coming... sometime in the future..." which sucks without a trailer because "in the future" could mean 2-3 years and means we have no information about the game to get excited about. Wii Sports 2 got announced, but the thing that made Wii Sports 1 so good was that it was free, I don't know if I would pay $60 for another Wii Sports. WiiMusic had DJ RAVI WHO WAS AWESOME but honestly I didn't like it at all, it seemed like there was no goal to it, it's like Guitar Hero without the arrows... just play at your own pace... seemed really REALLY LAME especially considering it was their "big" announcement. Very disappointing outside of Animal Crossing.

Sony:

Sony's press conference was alright. They had some cool videos for some of their games. A bit disappointing that they didn't have more surprises though. But still, the God of War 3 teaser was pretty cool and got me pretty excited for the game! The Resistance 2 boss fight looked freaking epic. LittleBigPlanet looks crazy and unique and I definitely wanna pick that one up. Hmm... I think I'm forgetting something, but still, it was an ok conference overall.

Overall though it was a pretty disappointing E3 because there weren't all the huge announcements like there usually was. But there was some cool new announcements and stuff so overall it was pretty cool but maybe I was expecting too much. Anyways, I enjoyed it.

OK wow, so this is probably my most anticipated game right now (along with Tales of Symphonia 2), and I finally got around to playing the demo, and all I can say is WOW!

First off, if you want to play the demo, it isn't available on the North American xbox live marketplace yet for some reason, so what you do is make a hotmail account and say you live in Japan, then turn that into an xbox live silver membership (for free), then you can access the japan xbox live marketplace. You can download it from there, and as long as your console is set to English, the voice acting and text and everything will be in English.

OK, everything about the demo is absolutely amazing and lives up to the Tales name for sure! The battle system is awesome and very similar to Tales of the Abyss, and the graphics are some of the best cel-shaded graphics I have EVER seen (ESPECIALLY IN 720p :O), it is amazing, and the dialogue is really funny as well! I cannot wait another month to play this, I want it now! :O Tales of Symphonia is my favourite game of all time and every game that I've played in the Tales series ended up in my top 5 games ever, and this is looking like it's going to be just as awesome as the previous ones! I cannot wait! Check out the demo if you like Tales games!

Also, E3 is, like... TOMORROW!!! And I haven't said what I hope will be there, so here is basically what I hope to see from each of the big 3 press conferences:

Nintendo:
Animal Crossing Wii footage.
New Wii-exclusive Zelda announced, along with a teaser.
Pikmin 3 for Wii.
The next Mario RPG, whether it's Mario RPG 2, Mario & Luigi 3, Paper Mario 3, or Super Paper Mario 2.
Tales of Symphonia 2 release date.
More Fire Emblem DS footage.
More Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles 2.

Microsoft:
Halo 4!
Bioshock 2.
Mass Effect 2.
Jade Empire 2.
Halo Wars release date.
More Resident Evil 5 gameplay.
More Gears of War 2 (obviously, LOL!)
Infinity Ward's new IP.
Bungie's next project (if it's not Halo 4).
More Fable 2 stuff.
More Fallout 3!
More Infinite Undiscovery.
More The Last Remnant.
Assassin's Creed 2.

Sony:

God of War 3.
White Knight Story.
Final Fantasy 13.
Final Fantasy vs 13.
More Little Big Planet!
Valkyria Chronicles.
Kingdom Hearts 3.
PS3 exclusive Tales game.
Home.

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ANNOUNCED IT!

WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!

Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Wrath of the Lich King... Blizzard is being freaking amazing right now!!! INCREDIBLE!!!

YO!

1st off, I will probably be buying Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 this weekend during the... LONG WEEKEND! Yup, it's a 4 day weekend because of Canada day and stuff which is awesome. It's gunna be such an awesome game, I think it came out yesterday, anyone played it yet and what do you think?

Also, WOW visit www.blizzard.com right now! They have some splash thing that you are redirected to, and it has a picture of shattered ice. What could this mean exactly? According to gamespot, this could mean the announcement of a new game by Blizzard! If you don't know, Blizzard is my favourite video game company, and whenever they release a new game, it's absolutely amazing. Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, the upcoming Starcraft 2... amazing! And now there's a possibility that they are announcing a new game! HOWEVER, since the theme of "ice" is present in the upcoming WoW expansion pack (the new continent Northrend), this could be an announcement of either: a) a release date for WotLK, or b) a date for open-beta testing. However, while that would be awesome, I think it could be something more... possibly Diablo 3!!! Which would be incredibly amazing!

I guess we'll have to wait and see. One thing we know for certain is that Blizzard's got a big announcement coming up... and I for one CANNOT WAIT!

HOW DID IT ONLY GET A 7.0 FROM GAMESPOT? This is freaking FFTA2 we're talking about!!! That was so stupid. Wow... IGN seems to know where it's at though, they gave it a 10/9/9/9/9 and and overall score of 9. Anyways, I don't know what's up with GS's review (or a few others I've seen too... Nintendo Power gave it a 7 too... why?) but yeah this game's gunna be freaking awesome so I don't know why they'd give it such a lame score. >_> Anyways, I know I want this game more than anything right now, so I can't wait to pick it up. 400 missions R U SERIOUS!? The original FFTA had 300 and I think I beat less than half of them and spent 60 hours. XD Hahaha. But yeah can't wait for this game it's gunna be good!!!

That's it! No more sidetracking, no more putting it off! I've had Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for way too long but keep getting sidetracked with other games! And then I try to start playing it again but I get sidetracked with another game. But no more! Now I'm going to commit myself to playing the rest of it before I continue with my other games (except WoW)! So GTA4, Forza 2, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, etc... are all on hold until I am finished with this!

So yeah, I started playing it again, I'm 17 hours into it now and it's starting to get REALLY awesome, I've taken command of Ike and his crew again now and the story is getting really epic. :O This game is in competition with 1 other mystery game (ooo the suspense) as my 2007 GotY, and so I know I was going to do my 2007 GotY awards like a week or two ago but it is delayed until I finish this masterpiece!

Also I've had my eye on Age of Conan lately, it looks really awesome and I'm probably going to get it in mid-August, it looks like a really sweet MMO. I'm surprised at all the awesome games coming out this summer... Age of Conan, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 (I wanna pre-order it!), Metal Gear Solid 4, Ninja Gaiden 2, Dragonball Z: Burst Limit, Soul Calibur 4... AHH my head's going to burst with awesomeness, I thought summer was supposed to be the video game drought for us to get caught up with any earlier games we missed!? Still, it's pretty sweet how many awesome games are coming out... I gotta find time to play all of these haha!

BUT NO, for now everything is on hold until Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is completed! I wanna play more of it! *goes to play* (BTW if you have a Wii and like strategy-RPGs you definitely gotta play it (after playing the one for Gamecube, since this one is a sequel) because it is AWESOME!).